Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2020 Architect Professional — Question 40
You are tasked with building a highly available, fault tolerant web application for your current employer. The security team is concerned about an increase in malicious web-based attacks across the internet and asked what you can do to add a higher level of security to the website.
How should you architect the solution on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) to meet all requirements defined by your organization? (Choose the best answer.)
Answer options
- A. Deploy at least 3 web application servers, each in a different fault domain, using a regional private subnet. Place a public load balancer in a regional public subnet and create a backend set for all of the web application servers. Deploy a Web Application Firewall (WAF) and configure the load balancer public IP address as the origin.
- B. Deploy at least 3 web application servers, each in a different fault domain, using a regional private subnet. Place a public load balancer in a regional public subnet and create a backend set for all of the web application servers. Create a Geolocation steering policy in Traffic Management and add an answer pool that directs to the public IP address of the load balancer. Configure a global catch-all rule to use this answer pool.
- C. Deploy at least 3 web application servers, each in a different fault domain, using a regional public subnet. Ensure that each web application server is assigned a public IP address. Deploy a Web Application Firewall (WAF) and configure one Origin for each public IP address.
- D. Deploy at least 3 web application servers, each in a different fault domain, using a regional public subnet. Use the OCI Traffic Management service to create a load balancing policy that will resolve DNS evenly between all web servers.
Correct answer: D
Explanation
Option D is correct because it utilizes the OCI Traffic Management service to ensure balanced DNS resolution among the web servers, enhancing availability. Options A and C involve using a Web Application Firewall but do not adequately address load balancing requirements. Option B includes geolocation steering, which may not be necessary for the given requirements and doesn't focus on load balancing as effectively as option D.